Yes, hard work helps in bringing success. Yes, Trent works hard. Not every successful person works hard. Not every hard worker is successful, either. There’s a lot of grey area between the lazy complainer and the hard worker. The world is far more complicated than this post suggests.

It reaches the parasite stage when a celeb begins to buckle under the pressure, or succumb to vice, and the profiteers then enable, or push a celeb to continue the path to point of near or total destruction. When you are surrounded by synchophants- you can lose touch with reality. We see it all time. It is only a symbiotic relationship as long as no one wants to get off the carousel, and the celeb does not insist on having much privacy.

(Taking her clothing line out of the picture, because I do believe that she has worked on that. I also believe that she was afforded the opportunity to pursue that particular line of work based on the family into which she was born, as I don’t think she has the talent or ability to make it in that line of work without the familial connections.)

This post couldn’t have taken more than 10 minutes to write.

I find it ironic that a post about hard work displays so little of it.

Maybe we have been reading a different blog. While I don’t argue with the point about using himself as a positive example I do disagree with the point about negative examples. Trent often uses himself as a negative example (as Becca mentioned in #19). This blog is based on Trent’s experiences, so it is to be expected that he often uses himself as an example (both positive and negative).

It’s hard work picking green beans, too. Sometimes people get lucky.

Look at the next blog. He then mentions others he knows as examples of big mistakes made. It is a repeated pattern of I use “me” for flattering comparisons, and I use others in my circle for unflattering anecdotes. If you have been reading this for a while- the pattern is overt.

(Using Kim and Jobs points to rather Machiavellian examples anyway-kinda odd to hold them up.)

I would be much more impressed if he coughed up some less than the most famous at the moment examples, and some positive examples of everyday people who are not him, or his immediate family. Surely there are others out there worthy of note-no doubt he’s received thousands of reader success stories!

For someone in that situation the path to success would have been a different one. One thing that people like Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton do is to recognize what they can do to capitalize on their background/relatives/looks, etc. In other words, they find a path to success that takes advantage of the advantages they have to work with.